Sentences with phrase «concerns over evidence»

Not exact matches

Fukuyama has expressed concern about the quality of public administration in the United States, citing evidence from the Volcker Commission, which showed that the morale and effectiveness of the federal workforce has been weakening over the past two generations.

Survey evidence suggests that consumers became more concerned about employment prospects during the course of the year; the net balance of respondents to the Westpac - Melbourne Institute survey expecting lower unemployment fell sharply over this time.

To sort through the empirical evidence, as happened in the course of my writing the book, is to find many reasons for concern over secularization — including, for starters, the unhappy fact that the rise of «nones» will reduce charitable donations to good causes.

I never made any claim concerning «minds» but have mentioned evidence over and over again.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

Other concerns included questions over the accuracy of evidence provided by the police, the lack of opportunity for the families to challenge the police versions of events, and the decision on the part of the coroner to record and publish the blood - alcohol levels of the deceased.

If you read the scientific and medical literature, the controversy about bed sharing safety primarily concerns babies less than 20 weeks old, and the most recent meta - analysis of published studies found no evidence of increased risk for babies over 3 months of age (Carpenter et al 2013).

Westrec Vice President Scott Stevenson said he hopes to address concerns, but he believes the 99 percent occupancy rate is evidence that boaters have been pleased with the company over the last 12 years.

There are only a few instances of the polymer being assayed in the milk of women with implants; the concentrations are not elevated over control samples.20 There is no evidence at the present time that this polymer is directly toxic to human tissues; however, concern also exists that toxicity may be mediated through an immunologic mechanism.

But while doctors say the evidence may support formula containing a DHA supplement over formula without one, they are concerned that the study may be the first test toward marketing a replacement for breast milk.

But while no evidence had been found to back up the «specific intelligence» that prompted the raid, he said concerns over public safety meant the police had to act.

Clegg in his evidence yesterday said he raised concerns with Cameron over Coulson's appointment, which Cameron confirms.

The move follows mounting concern over the emergence of new drugs like Mephedrone, which are being widely and legally used despite emerging evidence to suggest they may pose a serious health risk.

The NEC produced an internal report which concluded that there was evidence for concern and the selection process should be taken over by party officials.

«At the time, we decided that there was no evidence to show a significantly improved success rate, and there were also concerns about any carry over of DNA,» says a spokeswoman.

Pre-clinical evidence concerning the utility of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to aid the treatment of acute lung injury (ALI) has been mounting over recent years, with some clinical trials beginning to run.

Reminds me of global warming deniers, ultra sensitive on their own websites about a peep showing evidence, but full of deliberately misleading and even rude posts on websites concerned with addressing AGW, whose regulars bend over backwards to respond both factually and super duper sensitively.

Her tragic death was being highlighted by the Russian media today as evidence of concern over the lack of security for women in using online dating.

We might be concerned that, over time, there will be more private schools with a majority of students on FTC and that these schools might not be the highest quality (as evidenced by the fact that families do not attend if they have the pay the full price).

Our reason for concern over this pattern is also grounded in empirical evidence: it is the least regulated, most market - like private schools that do the best job of serving families.

In response to these concerns, David Harris responded that, while he is open to different ideas about governance, that evidence suggests that districts under mayoral control perform better and are more accountable to voters by giving them a single line at the voting booth by which to express displeasure over educational issues.

While the closure of a school is not an easy decision and always a last resort — the process was extensive, taken with thoughtful consideration, and made final after a thorough evaluation of evidence that demonstrated concerning poor financial health and poor academic results over multiple years.

The Labor Day weekend is over but there's no sign that lawmakers are ready to deal on the budget impasse now two month old — but of more immediate concern to schools, there's evidence that $ 1.2 billion in federal jobs money might get caught up in the spending debate.

Additionally, majorities of districts expressed concern about the reliability and validity of certain assessment measures (including test scores), and over the years some districts have designed an evidence - based teacher recommendation rubric that complements test scores by picking up student attributes that are important to student learning (such as student motivation).

Though the State Party also notes efforts to establish coral nurseries, and the imposition of a ban on shrimp trawling, the World Heritage Centre and IUCN are concerned over an apparent focus on conch and lobster, with little evidence that fin fish, which are an important attribute of the property's Outstanding Universal Value, are systematically addressed in the identification and design of no - take zones.

Consider this comparison: if you ran a giant food company which produced a particular product for over a hundred years with no basic complaint against it beyond it not being a staple of a standard daily meal diet, and you found yourself accused in just the last 20 years of both knowing it was cancer - causing and paying dietitian experts to tell the public otherwise — despite the lack of irrefutable evidence of its harm and the total lack of credible evidence that you paid «shill experts» to lie on your behalf — why would you suddenly capitulate to arguments against your product while not raising any concern about the corruption accusation hurled at you?

NEW evidence has cast doubt on claims that the world's ice - caps are melting, it emerged last night. Satellite data shows that concerns over the levels of sea ice may have been premature. It was feared that the polar caps were vanishing because of the effects of global warming. But figures from the respected US National -LSB-...]

Hence, if David and the IPCC etc wish to put forward ideas that ignore basic physics, meaning that they ignore the maximum entropy production which the Second Law says will tend to occur, thus establishing a stable temperature gradient which, as Big Wave Dave said, «obviates the need for concern over GH gases,» then the onus is on them to prove what they say, not only with valid physics, but also empirical evidence, experiments and studies, as appropriate and as is usually done in physics.

So if you were concerned about mechanized units traveling at night over secondary roads and asked agents to look for evidence if same, it was practically guaranteed they would frequent movements of vechicle columns at night over secondary roads.

Chief, you write «Our results provide direct experimental evidence for a significant increase in the Earth's greenhouse effect that is consistent with concerns over radiative forcing of climate.»

Does the apparent stop over 15 years give strong evidence concerning continuation of the AGW - type warming trend?

If sound evidence somehow emerged that the concern over Anthropogenic Global Warming was either baseless or over-stated (I know, I know, it exists but is being repressed by the conspiracy), I'm sure that even political lightning - rod Al Gore would be delighted.

Note that there is evidence that Heinrich events (rapid NH cooling) occur over decades so we should be very concerned regarding the possibility of future rapid cooling.

(1) there is established scientific concern over warming of the climate system based upon evidence from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level;

The close match between observation and simulation lead the paper's authors to conclude «Our results provide direct experimental evidence for a significant increase in the Earth's greenhouse effect that is consistent with concerns over radiative forcing of climate».

Global Witness's concern is based on evidence from Congo's previous elections, when six opaque mining and oil deals lost Congo $ 1.5 billion — over twice the country's annual health and education spending.

Here's my concern over the specific accusation narrative that skeptics were on the payroll of the fossil fuel industry — as I implied in both my March 17, 2014 blog post and my post just three weeks ago, there really has only been one solitary bit of core evidence keeping this accusation alive the whole time.

I'm forwarding for your entertainment an exchange that followed from my being quoted in the Harvard Crimson to the effect that you and your colleagues are right and my «Harvard» colleagues Soon and Baliunas are wrong about what the evidence shows concerning surface temperatures over the past millennium.

Winning The Battle Over Health Concerns The real battle to get us off bottled water will be won in large part by countering these claims that bottled water is safer with evidence that municipal water actually meets far stricter regulations for safety and cleanliness, as Gleick points out with study after study in his book.

However, the proposals have been controversial, with bodies such as the Association of Law Teachers raising concerns over the SRA's arguments, evidence and proposed forms of assessment.

Right to inspect firm's accounts if there is concern over a firms financial standing, eg there was evidence it was not paying third - party disbursements).

While anecdotal evidence is a far cry from reliable proof in a court case, my own experience (over a much more limited time span than the life of the Province of Alberta) and my discussions with colleagues, gives me great concern that the instances of repudiation have been dramatically understated.

Solicitors can submit evidence older than 24 months in applications for legal aid over matters concerning domestic violence, the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) has confirmed.

However, there is no evidence that this is a problem in the United States, calling into question the concern over accuracy as justifying the policy for Crown control.

The Court found that the Production Orders were overly broad and went well beyond what was reasonable to gather evidence concerning the jewelry story robberies such as requiring production of information on subscribers remotely located from the robbery sites, production of bank and credit card information and production of personal information on over 40,000 subscribers when the police really only sought information on the few individuals who may have been proximate to more than one of the robbery sites.

From the perspective of trial advocacy and forensic challenges, a keenly contested arbitration concerning the construction of three large leachate tanks constructed for a large uranium and gold mining facility posed particular challenges in cross examination of the large number of witnesses of 30 days in the conduct of cross-examination of experts giving concurrent evidence in five disciplines over seven consecutive days.

The accused's evidence concerning the amount he drank, coupled with a calculation by a toxicologist showing that the accused was not over 80, could raise a reasonable doubt that the Breathalyzer readings were accurate.

Writing for the same 5 - 4 majority as in Carosella, Justice Sopinka held, at para. 26, that where evidence has been inadvertently lost, «the same concerns about the deliberate frustration of the court's jurisdiction over the admission of evidence do not arise.»

Public interest concerns arose from evidence that V had been engaging in unauthorized practice, and a misleading (over) statement that he made in an affidavit supporting the stay application.

We strongly recommend this session for key witnesses, those giving evidence for more than one day, those giving evidence via interpreter or generally for any witnesses who you have particular concerns over when it comes to them giving evidence.